#!/usr/bin/perl -- #~ 2014-03-10-19:28:00 by Anonymous Monk #~ perltidy -csc -otr -opr -ce -nibc -i=4 #!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; use XML::LibXML 1.70; ## for load_html/load_xml/location use Data::Dump qw/ dd /; my $shortxmlraw = q{ }; my $xmlraw = q{ namecheap.domains.getList 4 1 50 API02 --5:00 0.008 }; my $doml = XML::LibXML->new( qw/ recover 2 / )->load_xml( string => $xmlraw ); my $doms = XML::LibXML->new( qw/ recover 2 / )->load_xml( string => $shortxmlraw ); Shabba( $doml ); Shabba( $doms ); exit( 0 ); sub Shabba { my( $dom ) = @_; ## this here xpath courtesy of xpather.pl my $shabba = q{ /*[ name() = 'ApiResponse' ] /*[ name() = 'CommandResponse' ] /*[ name() = 'DomainGetListResult' ] /*[ name() = 'Domain' ] }; foreach my $domain ( $dom->findnodes( $shabba ) ) { #~ foreach my $domain ( $dom->findnodes( q{ //*[ name() = 'Domain' ] } ) ) { printf "%s %s %s\n", $domain->{'ID'}, $domain->getAttribute('Expires'), $domain->getAttribute('Name'), ;;;;;; } print "\n"; } __END__ $ perl xml-simple-to-xml-libxml-1077492.pl 8888888 03/31/2015 Domain1.com 8888889 02/25/2015 Domain2.com 8888899 04/01/2015 Domain3.com 8888999 05/20/2015 Domain4.com 8888888 03/31/2015 Domain1.com